Friday’s Porsche 911 GT3 Cup race at Watkins Glen had to be halted and abandoned after a massive pile-up involving at least nine cars sent four drivers to the hospital, per IMSA. The crash happened in the fast esses of the track on the second lap of the race.

Happy Independence Day! Here’s all the America you could possibly want, in all the patriotic liveries that showed up to race during the 6 Hours of the Glen weekend at Watkins Glen. We’ll be back to our regular programming tomorrow, but for now, enjoy the holiday and be careful with those fireworks.

I’m off to one of the most historic race tracks in America for the third round of the North American Endurance Cup: the 6 Hours of the Glen. Watkins Glen is one of the toughest, most unforgiving circuits on the United SportsCar schedule, and we’ll see who wins—and who eats the pastel blue wall.

[Is there a better field of race cars for a 911 fan than the Porsche Carrera Cup? No. No, there isn’t. Here’s the Carrera Cup Deutschland at Lausitzring. ‘Tis a magical place where 911 GT3 Cup cars frolic with glee. Photo credit: Porsche]

Flying Lizard is making a long-awaited return to running Porsche 911s, only it's not where you'd expect. In addition to announcing a third customer McLaren 650S to run in Pirelli World Challenge today, Flying Lizard said that they will field a two-car customer effort in the Pirelli Porsche GT3 Cup.

For the first time in history, Porsche Supercup's final race of the season is in the United States. Better yet, an American team will be racing in it. If you're a fan of GT3 Cup, consider this a Cup race on steroids. It's Porsche's flagship development series for new talent, and it's here. HOLY CRAP YES.

Ever felt like racecar liveries needed more pizzazz? Sharks with frickin' laser beams? What about robot unicorns with laser beam eyes on a field of sparkly purple? Well, now is your chance! Porsche wants you to design Patrick Dempsey's GT3 Cup livery.

Night racing onboards are the best onboards: fact. The sharp contrast between light and dark, the cars constantly moving in and out of light, sometimes illuminated overhead, and other times, using only their headlights to see—it's all wonderful.

I mentioned yesterday that it had just started raining before the Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge season finale and thus, the series' season ender was probably worth a watch. Rain races are always great, but HOLY CRAP! I didn't expect to see the world's most expensive Slip-N-Slide.

Are you also a firm believer in the awesomeness that is GT3 Cup? Don't miss the live stream of the season finale here on imsa.com of the race happening at 11:25 a.m. EST. A mere seven points separate the top three drivers in the championship and it just started to rain—hoo boy!

American sportscar racing has been missing the audio crew of John Hindhaugh, Greg Creamer and Jeremy Shaw ever since ALMS merged with Grand Am to create the TUDOR United SportsCar series. No more—they're back to cover nearly every race IMSA sanctions.

If you are a Porsche fan and you weren't either in Austin at Circuit of the Americas this weekend or glued to the TV whenever coverage finally appeared,
I have to question what you're doing with your life.

Porsche GT3 Cup driver Jeroen Bleekemolen did something stupid while qualifying for this weekend's Baltimore Grand Prix: he drove himself off the track into a narrow run-off zone and lost a tire. Then he did something brilliant: he got out of the car and put the tire in his passenger seat. What?

The new Porsche 911 GT3 Cup's switching to the 911 GT3 RS platform, boasting a lower weight than the outgoing GT3-based Cup racer and 450 hp from Porsche's 3.8-liter flat-six. It also looks almost exactly the same.